Realized Gain error

David Carlson carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net
Sat Feb 16 10:52:43 EST 2013


On 2/15/2013 5:41 PM, Chris Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Chris Henderson <henders254 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I haven't updated my stock portfolio for months. All I do every day is
>>> update the price editor and reload the advanced portfolio. And I did
>>> this yesterday as usual and got that realized gain figure. Today, it's
>>> showing -$80.82. The stock in question has only 3 entries entered many
>>> months ago - 1 x initial purchase and 2 x Additional purchase - all of
>>> them going to Equity:Opening Balance USD.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to drill down on where it's getting that -$80.82 figure from?
>> It's beginning to sound like "UNREALIZED" gains  (or losses, in yor case).
> No, it shows up under realized gain (-$156.04, at the moment).
> Unrealized Gain is $2,672.86 at this stage.
>
> The only thing I can think of is to delete the entries and re-enter
> them. But they might recur.
>
> Thanks.
>
This report has some odd behaviors that mere mortals cannot fathom.  So
far there has been no response from anybody that knows or is willing to
explain what is going on "under the hood" or even anybody who knows how
to find out.  Where are the experts?

David C
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